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- The next step up, from snapping together little bits,…if you want to do something really custom, is to…dig out an Arduino.…And here we have a very special Arduino…called a Bluno.…It's made by a company named DFRobot,…and it combines an Arduino core, compatible with…Arduino Uno, with a built-in bluetooth radio.…DFRobot over here, has a website at dfrobot.com…where you can learn all about these guys, and…it's a full on Arduino, you can plug in…Arduino-compatible shields, you can plug in power…by putting power into this USB port, by pluging…in a power adapter over here, and what we're…going to do with it is build a little micro…weather station that you can put in your home…window, and what we're going to do to do that…is we've got a second device here from DFRobot,…called the DFRobot accessory shield, which…has the screen, a joy stick, a knob, a temperature…and humidity sensor, and a relay over here that you could…use if you wanted to use to connect up and say, control…the on/off of an electric light.…

And the way you put these together is, you…

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11/13/2014

The "Internet of Things" is a catchy way of describing the variety of devices connected through the Internet. This includes webcams, wearable tech-like smartwatches, car sensors, appliances, and even rudimentary robots. What the Internet of Things (IoT) offers is a way to manipulate the real world—the physical world—from the web. In this course, Michael Lehman shows how to program these "things" and build companion apps to monitor and record their activities from iOS devices. Learn what's inside a thing, how location-awareness technologies such as iBeacon connect the IoT in public spaces, and how you can create your own things with hardware like the Arduino and Raspberry Pi kits. Michael also shows how to use IFTTT services to control things on iOS, and muses on the future of IoT. Along the way, you'll gain experience with real-world IOT-driven projects, like a mini weather station and a home lighting system.